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Del Principe, Ann; Graziano-King, Janine – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2008
In this study, we compared self-revised essays to timed writing exams written by students in a developmental English course in a community college. Using a multiple-trait rubric, we found that self-revised essays showed greater elaboration than timed writing exams, and that elaboration and focus correlated only for self-revised essays. We argue,…
Descriptors: Timed Tests, Essays, Writing Tests, Community Colleges
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Taylor, Karl K. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1984
Compares and contrasts the efficiency and work habits of professionally experienced and inexperienced writers. (CRH)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, High School Students, Higher Education, Individual Development
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Fulkerson, Tahita – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Explains how the pairing of the two works allowed the teacher to show the culmination of nineteenth-century short story development with James and a current trend with Oates. (FL)
Descriptors: College English, Comparative Analysis, Course Content, English Instruction
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Kasper, Loretta Frances – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1996
Compares formal writing (analytical essays) and informal writing (short answer workbook-type exercises identifying main themes and ideas) as part of English-as-a-Second-Language reading education. Examines informal and formal writing assignments given to groups of students of comparable reading ability. Shows that formal writing did more to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Instructional Effectiveness